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🇸🇪 Same-country drive · Sweden

Driving from Lund to Stockholm

Drive time
6h 56m
Distance
601 km
Same day?
Yes, doable
under 8 h
Fuel cost
≈ €82
petrol · diesel ≈ €76
Tolls
Toll-free
no charges en route
EV charging
Plenty fast
17 of 73 ≥50 kW
Countries
🇸🇪 Sweden
1 country
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Route map

Route options

Other paths OSRM found between the two cities — handy when traffic, tolls, or scenery matter more than raw speed.

Avoids motorways

+2h 58m
Distance:
604 km
(+2 km)
Duration:
9h 55m

Via: 23 · E 22 · 23; 37 · D 800

How else can you make this trip?

Driving is the focus of this guide; here's how cycling, coach, and (soon) train and plane stack up for the same pair.

By car

6h 56m

601 km · €82 fuel

See details ↓

By bike

Not realistic

601 km is far beyond a typical multi-day cycle tour. Try a shorter pair like a day or weekend stage.

By bus
Direct

8h

FlixBus-eu

See details ↓

By train
Direct

4h 38m

SJ

See details ↓

Trip plan

How to think about the drive: one day, split, or overnight.

Long day — start early

Doable in one day but it is a full day behind the wheel. Start before 9am, plan one proper lunch stop, keep the driver rested.

Distance:
601 km
Duration:
6h 56m (free-flow, no traffic)

Where to stop

Places along the route that make natural breaks for coffee, lunch, or a night.

  1. Örkelljunga 🇸🇪 se

    ≈120 km

    ≈ 35 km detour from the main route

  2. Vaggeryd 🇸🇪 se

    ≈241 km

    ≈ 10.2 km detour from the main route

  3. Vadstena 🇸🇪 se

    ≈361 km

    ≈ 17.4 km detour from the main route

  4. Krokek 🇸🇪 se

    ≈481 km

    ≈ 30.6 km detour from the main route

Key moves

Things to know before you set off — borders, sides of the road, tolls.

Cross-border drive · SE → SE

You'll leave one country and enter another on this trip. Keep your ID close, even inside Schengen, and check current border-control status before you go.

Must-know before you go

The things a driver from another country wouldn't think to ask about — fines, stickers, payment cards, opening hours.

Tolls, vignettes & road payment

Øresund Bridge: ~€60 each way, book ahead for discount

Must know

The Copenhagen–Malmö bridge charges roughly DKK 460 (~€62) per car each way at the booth. Pre-booking on oresundsbridge.com for a chosen date drops it to about €34. The alternative — Helsingør–Helsingborg ferry — is €60-ish and 20 minutes; book the same day. There's no third land route.

Fuel stations

Contactless cards work at virtually every motorway pump

Tip

Major brand stations (Shell, Total, BP, Repsol, Cepsa, OMV, Eni, Esso) take Visa and Mastercard contactless without an issue. American Express and Diners are spotty south of the Alps. A €100 pre-authorisation hold is normal — it releases within 5 days. Carry €50 cash for the rare independent station.

Money & connectivity

EU roaming covers calls, texts and data at no extra cost

Tip

Your home EU SIM works at home rates across every EU member, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The "fair use" cap on data only applies if you're abroad more than four months. For a 2-week road trip, just use your phone normally — but switch off "data roaming" if you're leaving the EU into UK / CH for any segment.

Emergency & breakdown

112 works everywhere in the EU and continental neighbours

Tip

Single number for police, ambulance, fire — works from any phone, any network, any country. On motorways, the orange SOS pillars every 2km connect direct to the regional traffic control centre and pinpoint your location. Use them over your phone if you can — it speeds the response.

Rules, fees, and thresholds change. Always verify against the official source the day before you drive — this page is a checklist, not a legal reference.

Main roads

The highways this route spends the most kilometres on.

  • E 4 —
    531 km
  • E 6; E 20 —
    46 km
  • E 4; E 20 Södertäljevägen
    7 km
  • E 6.02 Fjelievägen
    4 km

Route character

How much of the drive is motorway vs. secondary vs. rural.

Motorway drive — fast, predictable, uneventful.

Motorway
98%
Secondary
0%
Other / rural
2%

Drive difficulty

At-a-glance feel: how demanding is this drive for one driver?

Overall

Moderate

Manageable but pay attention — long enough that a second driver or a planned lunch break is smart.

  • Long drive: 6h 56m behind the wheel at free-flow speeds.

Elevation profile

Highs, lows, and the total climb / descent along the route.

Lowest point
3 m
Highest point
217 m
Total ascent
↑ 353 m
Total descent
↓ 381 m

Fuel & tolls

Rough cost expectation for a typical EU passenger car. Treat as an estimate — pump prices change weekly.

Petrol (RON 95)

≈ €82

45.1 L × €1.82 / L · 7.5 L/100 km

Diesel

≈ €76

36.1 L × €2.11 / L · 6 L/100 km

Electric (DC fast)

≈ €62

105 kWh × €0.59 / kWh · 17.5 kWh/100 km

Public DC fast charging — slower AC charging at home or hotels typically costs about half.

Prices last refreshed 2026-10-12.

Fuel and EV charging along the route

Stations within a few kilometres of the road, sampled at evenly-spaced waypoints.

EV charging

73 found

17 at 50 kW or above (fast / ultra-fast).

Fastest first

  • Circle K Ljungby Nyponvägen — Ljungby 360 kW
  • ICA Maxi Ljungby - Eviny — LJUNGBY 360 kW
  • IONITY Ljungby South — LJUNGBY 350 kW
  • Nyponvägen 1A - Allego — LJUNGBY 300 kW
  • Tesla Supercharger — Ödeshög 250 kW
  • Recharge McDonalds Ljungby Södra — LJUNGBY 225 kW
  • OKQ8 Ödeshög Liljekonvaljvägen — ÖDESHÖG 150 kW
  • Vattenfall - Lund C - Spolegatan 2 — LUND 50 kW
  • Mobilitetshuset Svane LKP - eways — Lund 50 kW
  • Best Western Ljungby - Mer — LJUNGBY 50 kW
  • E.ON Max Ljungby — LJUNGBY 50 kW
  • Lidl Ljungby — LJUNGBY 50 kW

Weather by month

Average daytime high / overnight low and typical monthly rainfall, over the past five years.

🇸🇪 Lund

Month
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
4°
-0°
5°
-0°
8°
1°
12°
4°
17°
8°
20°
12°
21°
14°
21°
13°
20°
12°
13°
8°
7°
3°
6°
2°
89mm 56mm 48mm 33mm 46mm 65mm 81mm 91mm 68mm 96mm 73mm 62mm

hot mild cold

🇸🇪 Stockholm

Month
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1°
-4°
2°
-3°
6°
-1°
10°
1°
16°
6°
21°
12°
22°
14°
20°
13°
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12°
11°
6°
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58mm 32mm 36mm 32mm 30mm 59mm 110mm 75mm 59mm 73mm 44mm 46mm

hot mild cold

Next 5 days at Stockholm

Live forecast — refreshes every few hours.

  • Mon 26

    ⛅

    11° / 10°

    —

  • Tue 27

    ⛅

    11° / 8°

    —

  • Wed 28

    ☀️

    14° / 10°

    —

  • Thu 29

    ⛅

    11° / 9°

    —

  • Fri 30

    ☀️

    10° / 6°

    —

Forecast: MET Norway

Directions

Turn-by-turn summary of the main manoeuvres, generated by OSRM.

Show all 17 manoeuvres
  1. —
  2. Kävlingevägen
  3. Fjelievägen (E 6.02)
  4. Fjelievägen (E 6.02)
  5. Fjelievägen (E 6.02) 4 km
  6. (E 6; E 20) 22 km
  7. — 0.4 km
  8. — 0.5 km
  9. (E 6; E 20) 24 km
  10. (E 4) 223 km
  11. (E 4) 169 km
  12. (E 4) 138 km
  13. Stockholmskopplet
  14. Södertäljevägen (E 4; E 20) 7 km
  15. Södertäljevägen 3 km
  16. Hornsgatan 2 km
  17. Gustav Adolfs Torg

By coach from Lund to Stockholm

Indicative duration of the fastest direct long-distance coach found in the FlixBus and BlaBlaCar Bus EU schedules.

Travel time
8h
Direct
Operator
FlixBus-eu
Departures / day
~1
Approximate based on the published schedule.
Show coach corridor on map

Schedules sourced from the FlixBus and BlaBlaCar Bus GTFS feeds via transport.data.gouv.fr. Times are indicative; verify on the operator's site before booking.

Booking link coming soon.

By train from Lund to Stockholm

Fastest cross-border rail itinerary from the public Transitous planner. Times reflect a typical Monday-morning departure on the next available service-day.

Fastest journey
4h 38m
Direct
Lead operator
SJ
Alternatives
5
Itineraries returned by the planner.

Trains on the fastest itinerary

  • 534

Includes a high-speed rail leg (TGV, ICE, AVE, Frecciarossa-class).

Show route on map

Routing via the public Transitous OTP planner (community-run MOTIS instance). Cached 24 hours; verify on the operator's site before booking.

How this page is built

Compiled by COD Solutions Oy from open European data — OSRM over OpenStreetMap for the route geometry, Open-Meteo for monthly climate normals, OpenTopoData SRTM 30m for elevation, and Open Charge Map for EV charging stations. See our methodology for refresh cadence and limitations.

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